Revisiting the BadAxe: Smashes 81K 3D Mark 01, 61K 03, 25.6K 05, 16K 06

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No doubt the ASUS P5WH is faster, having had bad luck with it, and no higher Multiplier available on the DFI 975X Infinity, it was definitely time to pay the Intel Bad Axe D975XBX Motherboard another visit! Both Cross-Fire and SLI were ran! Cross-Fire with Catalyst 6.6, SLI with modded 84.66 Forceware to run SLI on Intel Chipset flawlessly!

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Mac Core 2 Performance

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We've already seen the damage that Core 2 can do on a PC. With Apple supposedly announcing new Conroe based Macs at their WWDC, we wre curious on how well they would perform inside a Mac

Multi-GPU World Tour 2006 Part 5: Most Played Titles

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Many weeks ago Neoseeker started work in a one of a kind collaborative effort with 8 other well known hardware sites to create a Mult-GPU series of articles that would span across 8 sites, cover over 60 benchmarks, and put 3 ATI CrossFire and 3 NVIDIA SLI systems under the microscope. Last week the article series was launched and 4 articles have been published since. This is now part 5 of the Multi-GPU World Tour and we'll be looking at the "Most Played Game Titles".

Intel Pulls ATI Chipset Licence

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ATI had its chipset bus licence pulled, or at least not renewed by Intel. I guess that means that AMD won't be making many chipsets for Intel in a year or so.

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Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 air-cooled runs at 466Mhz x 6 on ES X6800

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Not using any watercooling or LN2. The Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 with our ES X6800 runs at an amazing 466MHz FSB with a multiplier of 6. Imagine your RAM is running in SYNC at 1:1 to your CPU!! That is at default voltages with PCIe fixed at 100MHz. This is just an initial test, I am able to POST up to 6 x 490 but it isn't stable to go into WIN XP.

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Dell Knew Of Burned Laptops Before Recall

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Dell grappled with severe overheating problems in scores of notebooks for at least two years before it announced a recall of 22,000 notebooks last year, according to a source close to the company.

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October Debut for Microsoft 'iPod Killer'

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Microsoft's so-called "iPod killer" could be unveiled as early as late next month, with the company preparing to build momentum towards an October launch, sources close to the situation have told BetaNews.

First WiFi Hard Disk in Singapore

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A 1.8" Hitachi 30GB Travelstar in the Wi Drive, up to 60GB potential in this small a form factor. Definitely qualified to be coined pocket sized.

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X1950 XTX and X1950 CF Will Have Same Clocks

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ATI plans to make Crossfire and the XTX cards clock at the same speed. Both the upcoming Radeon X1950 XTX and Radeon X1950 Crossfire Edition will end up clocked at 650MHz core and 2.0GHz DDR4 512MB memory. We can now confirm that the cards will be ready for the 23rd of August.

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NVIDIA Quad SLI DIY Interview

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We have an exclusive interview with NVIDIA about their launch into true enthusiast Quad SLI. Today marks the release of the beta driver with official DIY Quad SLI support. We ask some tough questions and get no-nonsense answers that should help you make your Quad SLI decision.

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Vulnerability Found In D-Link Routers

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A buffer overflow vulnerability discovered several D-Link wired and wireless routers could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code and potentially compromise entire networks

Modding and Overclocking a 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 card

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At 3dfxzone.it Hardware Modding forum some photos were posted showing fine modding work done on a 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 128Mb video card. Main modding target is to get better hardware stability with default clock values and, at last, to extend overclocking limits. Modded components were the four VSA-100 graphics processor and ram chips. Read more and view images Here

Fight for C2E X6800, Price-Cut is the Only Way

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In the previous plan of AMD price-cut on July 24, it?s curious that AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 (2.8GHz/1MBx2 L2/1GHz HT) was excluded in the list. To compare with Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 (2.93GHz/4MB L2/1066MHz FSB), it?s no point for AMD to maintain its price in the battle. The final answer has come, AMD decided to drop Athlon 64 FX-62 from $999 to $799, 22.5% lower, according to the latest price list from AMD. The drop is also scheduled on July 24. Meanwhile, AMD has announced the pricelist for Q4 as well. Yet it has no effect on the AMD desktop processors.

Intel Core 2 (Conroe): Thermal & Power Analyzed

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We've shown you the processor's monstrous performance, but that's just one highlight of the Core microarchitecture. Join us as we reveal to you more mind-boggling figures as we investigate the Core 2 processor's power consumption and heat output.

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ATI's R600 is a 80 Nanometre Chip

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We know that the 80 nanometre chips are a little bit cooler, they can be clocked slightly faster but I would not expect much more than 700 to 750MHz core clock. The biggest point is that the chip is 17 per cent smaller than the previous ones manufactured using the 90 nanometre process.

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Intel Xeon 7100 16MB L3 Model Launch on Aug 27

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According to the latest roadmap for Intel server platform, new multi-processor Xeon 7100 family (Tulsa) plans to launch on Aug 27, replacing Xeon 7000 (Paxville MP) to against Opteron 8 family.

Efficiency & Performance: The Intel Core 2 Duo

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The Intel Core 2 Duo is upon us, finally... We dissect this new line of processors from Intel to see what the performance numbers entail. The big leap ahead in terms of performance is already expected by many enthusiasts...What else to expect on top of a quality main course? We find out!

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